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- Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors
- Ed Whitacre, who built SBC, one of the babies Bell, back into "The New AT&T" has been tapped by the Obama Administration's auto task force to be chairman of the "reinvented General Motors." Seriously. Think about that. AT&T is the template for...
- Tags: Board, AT&T Corp., General Motors Corp., Whitacre, Whiteacre, Corporate Governance, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Apple to announce Q1 2009 earnings after the bell
- Apple to announce Q1 2009 earnings after the bellZaky is a bit enthusiastic......but I expect Apple to have had a solid quarter.iPhone sales will be very strong, iPods will be good and Macs will be adequate.Plus the other revenue streams such as iTunesand Apples share of all those iPhone contracts....
- Tags: Financial accounting, Q1 2009, Apple Inc., Zaky
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open source
- Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open sourcePretty deep penetrationand only going to get deeper. ]:)RE: Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open sourcewonder what planet this guy is on, i works for ALOT of tech and not tech business, and most do NOT use Linux/FOSS, OSS AT ALL. nil,...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, Gartner Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
- (Photos: Tata's $2,500 car)
- (Photos: Tata's $2,500 car)Only time will tell not speculation......Pagan jimWell what about 300 million Americans driving SUVs?Pagan jimi'll bet that's really safentRE: (Photos: Tata's $2,500 car)Just what the environment needs - a billion Indians driving cars...Now why can't I buy something like that here?This is America right? Are you...
- Tags: Insurance, photograph, Yugo
- Discussion threads 2008-01-11
- The day my iPhone touch screen died
- The day my iPhone touch screen diedParts is Parts[url=http://www.intomobile.com/2007/08/10/analyst-apple-iphone-screen-problems-may-get-worse-the-dreaded-dead-strip.html]FYI[/url]The linked article speaks for itself.Touch Screen Gotcha. It can be argued......whether touch screens are great technology advancement.But, when it comes to failure, well you are dead in the water. I've had a couple of issues with my Nokia N95...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, touch screen, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple Store
- Discussion threads 2007-12-24
- Apple prepping 10.5.1 update
- Apple prepping 10.5.1 updateGo censor someone else.Until you are the moderator of this forum you do not have the right or the responsibility to tell me what to post.I guess that response is expected......if you don't have a counter-argument worth a damn.I bet the majority of Mac users really love...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), koolaid, Leopard, Apple Inc., operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-11-08
- SOA Insights analysts view IBM's information umbrella, explore SAP's Business Objects grab and define 'Guerrilla SOA'
- Read a full transcript. The latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 26, provides a roundtable discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts and experts. In this episode, our group examines the relationship and tension...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, Business Objects, SAP AG, SOA, IBM Corp., WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Who's the iPhone aimed at?
- Who's the iPhone aimed at?Devil PhoneAdrian, its the devil phone and its here to take your soul!Give it a rest!LOLNooo.Only you AdrianWhich Category do you fall into Adrian..?Stupid iPhoneI've been confused about the target market for the iPhone, too. It's too expensive for teenagers. Too limited for gadget...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Keyboards, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Desktops, Apple iPhone, phone, mobile
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- What's the difference between an 'SOA' and 'enterprise' archtect'?
- What exactly is an 'SOA architect'? Is it any different from an 'enterprise architect'?Those are the questions taken up at the most recently published SOA BriefingsDirect podcast, led by ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner. Steve Nunn, vice president and COO of The Open Group, joined John Bell, an enterprise...
- Tags: General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- SOA Insights analysts join The Open Group to help define new role of SOA architect
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.Bringing services-oriented architectures SOAs to life is a lot like delivering a baby -- it requires a copious nurturing, understanding, labor, and ultimately ... pushing. So far, the job openings for SOA midwives outstrip the available pool of talent.And these are great jobs: transforming...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, Podcasts, Microsoft, management, IT Management, IBM, Enterprise Java, .NET
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- D5 Live: No fight--Gates and Jobs ponder the past and the future
- D5 Live: No fight--Gates and Jobs ponder the past and the futureTyposThe typos in this article are annoying. That's my in-depth analysis.Who edited this articleI have never seen so many grammatical errors, missing words, and typos in a professionally written article. C'mon guys, you can do better than that. Proof...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Apple Inc., Bill Gates, job, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-30
- Vendors promote an oxymoron -- 'SOA suites'
- "Jumbo shrimp" and "government organization" are classic examples of oxymorons, but is the idea of an "SOA suite" also just as much a contradiction of terms? After all, SOA is not supposed to be about suites, bundles, integration packages, or anything else that smacks of vendor lock-in. ...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, SOA Suite
- Blog posts 2007-03-11
- Your entire life in a hard drive
- Would you want a digital archive of your life? Every memory, every encounter, every click, every breath and damn near everything? Two researchers at Microsoft Research think so. In the March issue...
- Tags: General, Science, Microsoft, Storage, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- SOA analysts debate best-of-breed vs. suite approaches, merits of master data management, and ponder a dearth of SOA architects
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 10, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts.In this episode, our experts examine best-of-breed versus SOA suites, master data management, and debate the...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Open Source, business intelligence, ITIL, IT Service Management, Oracle, datacenters, database, HP, IBM, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA, Interarbor Solutions, Podcasts
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- YouTube: Is Viacom hurting innocent YouTubers?
- Corporate media giant Viacom is taking a stand against corporate advertising giant Google to defend itself against alleged copyright infringement at YouTube (see “Is the Google YouTube honeymoon over?”). Are innocent YouTubers caught in the high-stakes crossfire?Jim Moore recounts how he innocently uploaded a “friends and family” video of...
- Tags: Business Models, Advertising, Legal, Google, YouTube, Amateur Content, Google Software Applications, Copyright, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Report: Apple executives faked stock-option documents
- Report: Apple executives faked stock-option documentsMust beA slow news day. Then again, this is ZDNet. Any story that makes Microsoft look better is a good story.Lying is not a sin ... if you are an Apple CEO.[b]All his life[/b] he has mislead the public about Apple products – e.g. illusions...
- Tags: Stock options, Investment, Benefits, Financial accounting, Strategy, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., stock option
- Discussion threads 2006-12-27
- Let's have fun with old songs about phones- do they still hold up in 2006?
- Earlier today as I was thinking about Thanksgiving Day phone calls I might make later on, my thoughts turned to telephone songs. Songs about making phone calls, about not completing phone calls, calls about what was said during these calls.Then the thought hit me: would the lyrics of these...
- Tags: telephone, General
- Blog posts 2006-11-23
- Users mock Apple slogan during .Mac outage
- Users mock Apple slogan during .Mac outageOpps ... are they using this new core 2 in their servers?Theyt better revert back to a more reliable processor such as a PowerPC ... What is causing the failure? --mHey Harry...[i]Thanks, Apple, for making a joke out of long term customer loyalty, and...
- Tags: Desktops, Channel management, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., e-mail, Web, hosting company, outage, server
- Discussion threads 2006-07-31
- Jobs' new Disney role raises conflict concerns
- Jobs' new Disney role raises conflict concernsWhere's the BEEF!?!Take it from someone who has gone through divorce. NOTHING lasts forever. So big whoop HP and MS may find themselves kicked to the curb.....blank happens.Pagan jimConflicts?Are you kidding??? Nobody screams and cries about Bill Gates abuses anymore, why should...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, Nothing, SAP AG, Disney Corp., Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., job
- Discussion threads 2006-01-25
- Allchin memo: 'The place to be'
- Allchin memo: 'The place to be'Just say it's not google!!It's ok to go.. just say it is not google.Words of leadership...Mr. Allchin has inspired me in so many ways. Only the poetic words of George W. Bush have moved me more. Let me give some perspective at this time. Imagine...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, vulture, Linux
- Discussion threads 2005-09-20
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